The kite runner Directions: Read the following quote and answer each of the following questions, using specific details from the novel as your evidence.

“I’m so lucky to have found you. You’re so different from every Afghan guy I’ve met” (Hosseini 157).

Soraya is talking to Amir here. Is she lucky? How so? How are women treated in Afghanistan? Under the Taliban? Compare American and Afghan women.

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

What is mostly clearly a disadvantage of living in a world dominated by the presence of televisions according to niel postman?

3.06 unit assessment: critical skills practice 1 answers?